When I entered as a first year student in archaeology, on the first day of class of the Mesopotamia series, two students were sitting front row with pith helmets on….we secretly laughed our butts off but the professor was not amused….
1. Set out a study plan for the year, and then end up staying up all night before your exams
2. Make a friend for life in the first week and then discover that they are possessed by the devil and are keen to purchase your soul
3. Fall asleep at lecture
4. Discover religion
5. Develop a knowledge of the finest wines known to man and then decide that Spar home brand is by far the best (and cheapest)
6. Set yourself the challenge of meeting someone from Leitrim
7. Find the library, and discover that it has all the information you need to complete your course
8. Never darken its door for the remainder of your college days unless to complain about the lack of adequate facilities you never intend to use
9. Think about robbing a bank
10. Go to a fancy dress ball as someone completely outrageous
11. Speak at a debate
12. Lose your virginity and then somehow find it again
13. Grow a beard
14. Wake up in a strange house and discover that you have joined religious cult during one particular hazy night out
15. Talk inordinate amounts of rubbish to the people you fancy in a bid to make yourself unbelievably attractive
16. Have your heart broken
17. Break someone else’s heart while on the rebound
18. Develop secret persona on student chatroom website
19. Come up with the greatest hangover cure known to man and then attempt to sell it
20. Start a band and split up after six months because members are finding it difficult to truly express themselves
21. Set up a website with a few mates and then decide how you’re going to spend the millions when you’re a dot.com millionaire
22. Make a fool of yourself in front of at least a hundred people
23. Get off with someone completely out of your league
24. Leave
25. Vow never to return
I started a fight before I went into an exam. Now the girl I had a fight with is one of my best friends. I think it’s ‘cos I got her out of the test ;-p
...We kept hating each other right an thru the end of the school year. We even had to start keeping a journal of instances when we tried to be nice to each other.
A few weeks after this, there was an incidentin the music room.
we had to do the diary thing, whever I spoke or even looked at her she wrote it down, so I stored all the bitchy emails she sent me, printed them off and gave them into the school.
We hated each other for about 2 years, I can’t remember how we made it up, I remember I once poured a BIG bucket of paint on her head. She looked kinda blue after that
...Oh, I was only 11 when this happened. No cars to ruin, no email…They tried to blame it on race problems at first, but then when the teacher explained that I had no other problems with other non-white students in classroom, they knew it was just her.
